Disclaimer: Dragon Ball is not mine, neither is RWBY.
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Uninvited
"Alright team, Operation: Find Blake is a go!" The young leader of team RWBY declared loudly to her two members.
It was currently early in the morning, a night has passed since Blake was last seen. At the moment, Ruby and the others were still within Beacon Academy. Ruby decided that it would be best to search for her as soon as they could because she had a feeling that Blake wouldn't come back to them unless they took the initiative, so they started their search in the morning since it would be easier to find her in broad daylight.
"Are you sure we can't just let the authorities handle this?" Weiss complained.
Ruby and Yang promptly ignored the heiress, leaving her aspirated. They knew the heiress would help them in their search, albeit reluctantly. Weiss did indeed want to search for their missing teammate, faunus or not. However, she still needed more time to reflect on what happened yesterday.
"Before we go, think ya might want to take Goku along as well?" Yang asked her little sister, she had thought that Ruby would have asked him by now.
"Nah. As much as I want to, this is a team thing...and plus, I don't want to disturb him, he is a security guard here after all," Ruby reasoned, she also didn't want Goku to be worried about Blake's disappearance.
"It's not like we ever see him do actual work but...you're right," Yang said, agreeing with her younger sister.
"Alright then. Once we get to town, you and Weiss will be on one team while I search alone," this was for the best in Ruby's mind, the two still needed to work out their issues with each other.
"What! Did you not see what was going on yesterday?" Weiss complained, it's not like she didn't want to work with the brawler but they're not exactly at speaking terms right now.
"Cool it for a bit, ice queen. Rubs is our leader after all so we gotta do what she says," Yang understood clearly that her little sister was trying to help the two of them make up, even if she didn't like the idea.
Weiss relented, she did promise after all that she'll be the best teammate for their leader. How she acted just now was anything but, the heiress supposed that she should act more professional at this point instead of complaining. Truthfully, it was getting a bit repetitive.
"No more complaints? Good, let's go then."
Thus, the three began walking towards the streets, in hopes of finding their missing teammate.
Speaking of their missing member, she was currently sitting outside a café, drinking tea with a certain blond faunus.
Sun was not having much progress with the cat faunus sitting across him. Ever since Goku left, they had not spoken a single word, which annoyed him quite a bit. They spent an entire night wandering around town. When he meant 'they', he meant it was only him just following the cat faunus around.
"Seriously? How long are you going to play hard to get here?" Sun asked while he was drinking his tea by using his tail.
"..."
"Oh man. If I knew this was gonna happen, then I should have convinced my kinda maybe lost cousin to come with us or something. At least he'll be someone I can talk to," Sun said as he emphasized the last part, wanting Blake to take the hint.
"So, you wanna know more about me?"
Sun was surprised that the cat faunus finally decided to talk to him, "At last she speaks! Ever since last night, all you've been giving me were nothing but weird looks and stares."
Blake gave a firm stare towards the blond faunus at that particular remark.
"Yeah, like that."
"Sun, do you know about the White Fang?"
"Sure I do! I'm pretty sure every single faunus on the planet know about them, their stupid holier-than-thou attitude really rubs me the wrong way," Sun responded, drinking his tea.
Blake was silent for a moment then continued speaking, "Well...I used to be one of its members."
The instant he heard the reveal, he choked on his drink. He quickly pounded his chest and spit out a bit of the tea on the table as a result, disgusting Blake. Noticing the cat faunus's displeasure, he quickly wiped off the drink he spilled on his mouth and acted as if nothing happened, gesturing Blake to continue.
"Right... As I was saying, I was a member the most of my life. You could even say my life before then only revolved around the White Fang."
"Then why quit in the first place? Not that I'm don't like that you're not a member anymore," Sun quickly amended, putting both his arms up.
"I'm sure you also know…that the White Fang wasn't always like this," Blake said, gazing at the sky, remembering the past.
"Yeah...it was like how many years ago?" Sun scratched his head, trying to dig it out from his memory but couldn't, he never paid much attention to history of Remnant after all.
"Around five years, five years ago was when the White Fang started to change," Blake stopped, staring Sun in the eyes, which he stared back in return. Blake broke eye contact as she continued.
"Let's return back to the ashen days of war, when the White Fang was the symbol of peace and equality between the humans and the faunus. Despite being promised equality, it was clear as day that we faunus didn't get what we wanted. In fact, nothing change. Striving, struggling…it was only the White Fang that acted as the voice of us faunus...and I was there, all of it, even during its change."
Sun didn't say a word, he could only listen attentively to her story.
"When I was still a child, I was always at the front of every rally, partaking in every boycott, putting everything I had into it...I was just too optimistic for my own good."
She drank the tea again, to prepare what she was about to say.
"And then our leader changed..." Blake said, sadness and regret in her tone.
"Then you-know-what happened?" Sun was trying his best to thread carefully when talking with the young woman before him, he didn't want to make it worse for her after all.
Blake couldn't disagree with the monkey faunus, he was correct after all.
"Yes, that's when everything changed. Peaceful protests turned into organized attacks, we countered the people who refused us with force and violence and the worst part of it all, it worked. It worked so well that we were finally treated as equals…but not out of respect or anything… but fear, fear that frightens people only by the mere mention of the name."
"So I guess you couldn't take it anymore?"
"You're right, I left...but not without getting my hands dirty. That's why I came to Beacon in the first place, to dedicate my life to being a huntress. So here I am, a criminal hiding in plain sight, all because of a little black bow," Blake said, demonstrating the last part as she wiggled her cat ears.
After hearing her story, Sun understood and decided that he'll help her out in any way he could, even if the cat faunus didn't want to. He was wondering however, why none of her teammates were here, supporting her.
"So do any of your teammates know about this?"
Blake's shameful expression was all the information that Sun needed to know so he said nothing as they continued sitting outside the café.
"Blaaake! Blaaake!" Yang yelled loudly, walking down the streets of Vale as she tried to search for her partner.
"I can't believe that Ruby! The instant we came here, she ran away as fast as she could," Weiss complained to nobody in particular, annoyed by their leader's action.
Yang sighed, she knew it was going to be rough working with the ice princess but her sister was right, she would have to resolve this little fight of them sooner than later if they wanted to find Blake.
"We were gonna split up in the first place anyway. Plus, Rubs is the fastest among us here," Well, at least she's trying to speak to the heiress now instead of ignoring her up until this point.
Surprised by Yang's reply, she quickly took this chance to talk with the bruiser of their team, seeing as this might be the only chance they would have to make up.
"Even so, she didn't have to run off without telling us..."
The two then stayed silent for a moment, not knowing what to say next. Yang took the initiative as she decided to talk about the real issue between them.
"Look Weiss, it's not like I don't understand why you don't like faunus in general. I mean, I can't blame you...but you still insulted my best friend," Yang said as she gave a sharp stare to the heiress.
The blonde brawler could clearly tell Goku didn't care about the heiress's comment in the least, but she didn't feel right at all if she just let that slide quietly.
"I h-have to agree...I might have said too much," Weiss still had some doubts about the martial artist but she did think she went overboard yesterday, she attributed to her being so agitated at the time.
"Might have? Seriously, you still don't trust Goku do you?" Yang's blood was starting to boil again. She couldn't believe the heiress. As far as she could tell, Goku had done nothing that could be considered 'evil' in her eyes and yet Weiss was still having doubts about the guy.
"I had a lot to think about yesterday! Blake, the faunus, the White Fang...I just don't know what I'm supposed to think right now..." Weiss answered sincerely, eyes casting downward.
None of them said anything after that as they continued searching for Blake.
Ruby was, for a lack of a better term, speeding through the streets right now. Too bad it only lasted thirty seconds before she got tired and decided to settle down on a nearby bench.
"Where are you Blake?" Ruby said, gazing at the blue sky, wondering where her team member was.
"Perhaps you need some assistance?"
The new voice startled Ruby as she got out her seat. After calming down a bit, she took a better look at who was just now talking to her.
"Salutations! It is nice to meet you again Ruby!" It turned out to be Penny, happily greeting Ruby who was still recovering from her initial surprise.
"Hey there Penny. Didn't see you there...Oh! I'm trying to find Blake, you know where she might be?" She asked, shaking her head as she tried to shake off her initial surprise.
"Oh! You're looking for the faunus girl!"
"Wait, how did you know that?" None of them could have known Blake was a faunus before yesterday, she didn't know how Penny could possibly know if she had only saw Blake once.
"Uhh, the cat ears?" Penny said as she pointed towards the top of her head.
"Huh...No wonder she likes tuna so much…and wears that bow all the time ," Ruby realized as she remember the many times Blake had asked for tuna whenever they were eating and also never seeing her taking off her bow.
"Goku is also not a human. What is so weird?"
"Of course he's not, Goku's a faunus," Ruby waved her hand, disregarding what Penny said about Goku.
Penny was thinking otherwise but decided it would be better if she focused on helping her friend.
"I will help you then Ruby," Penny smiled.
"Really? You don't really have to..."
"Nonsense, you are my friend after all. By the way, where are the rest of your friends?" Penny asked, looking around to see if she missed anyone.
"No, it's just me. Yang and Weiss are searching somewhere else and I didn't want to disturb Goku..."
"I see. Then we shall search every speck of dust until we find Blake!" She declared, hugging Ruby's neck which caused the scythe wielder to feel embarrassed.
"So, what's the plan right now?" Sun asked Blake, the two walking around an alley.
"I still don't believe the White Fang is behind all those robberies. They never had that much of a need for dust when I was still a member..."
Once Sun heard what the cat faunus just said, he started walking in a circle as he started talking, "What if they did? Hear me out, the only way we could prove they weren't there is that if we check out the one place they would mostly go to and if they aren't there, that proves the White Fang didn't do it, right?"
He stopped as he realized Blake was giggling a bit. It was small but it was definitely there. Blake noticed the monkey faunus staring at her, she quickly hid her embarrassment as she composed herself.
"Problem is, I don't know where that would be?"
"Well, while I was hiding on the ship, I heard some guys talking about a huge shipment of dust coming in from Atlas,"
"How huge?"
"Huge. Big Schnee Company freighter huge."
"You sure?"
Sun only gave her a confident grin, signaling that he knew what he was talking about.
"Then we'll have to wait there at the docks."
"Sounds like a plan," Sun was glad that she was including him.
With a renewed purpose on where to go, they started walking to the docks.
Yang and Weiss were still walking around, searching for their missing team member. They asked shop owners, restaurant owners, even random passerby but none of them had ever seen Blake.
Having enough silence as it was, Weiss decided to confront the brawler on the whole 'Goku' issue.
"Well Yang...what we were discussing about earlier, specifically about G-Goku."
That immediately held Yang's attention, she wanted to know if the heiress was still being stubborn about the guy.
"Why do you trust him so much? To me, he is still only a simple-minded buffoon that has nothing in his head besides fighting and eating," The heiress really did want to know, she had associated with the martial artist for some time now but all she could see was someone, who quite honestly acted idiotic all the time.
Yang could have exploded in rage in response to that, but she didn't. If she wanted Weiss to actually change her perspective on her best friend, her usual method probably wouldn't work.
"You're probably right. He's always happy, laid back and can be pretty ignorant of social cues like Ruby. But underneath all that, he can still care about others, he can cry and he can even get angry. It's just that you don't see it very often."
"Even so, he still lacks education,"
To Weiss, education and proper etiquette is what makes a person whole. Without those, they would just be an uncouth idiot to her.
"You know Weiss. In my eyes, that guy is a genius."
"You're kidding right?" The heiress retorted, she couldn't see from possibly any angle on how that musclehead was a genius. To her, a genius would be someone like Pyrrha Nikos or her older sister, Winter.
"Nope, completely straight. You're probably thinking a genius would be someone like Pyrrha right?" Yang said, pointing towards Weiss.
The heiress couldn't deny it and who could blame her? Pyrrha Nikos was a combat pragmatist among their years, a genius who she was initially trying to partner up with after all. There was just no conceivable way that a mere security guard, even with his high combat capabilities, could possibly compare to the champion of multiple tournaments.
"Well, sure Pyrrha's good and all but compare to Goku, I would say even she couldn't beat him in a straight fight."
Weiss heard this before when the two were fighting, but she disregarded as mere exaggeration.
"Judging by your face...guess I can't convince you huh? But hey, at least you think a little better of Goku now right? Maybe even faunus in general," Yang asked, pinching her fingers.
True, the heiress thought. She definitely had a better opinion of the martial artist now... but to say she was perfectly fine with him and faunus in general would be a lie. At least Yang and her were on speaking terms again, she considered that a success.
Night had fallen. Strangely enough, Ruby still hadn't met up with neither Yang nor Weiss. Nonetheless, she was still searching for Blake as she was accompanied by Penny.
"So I surmised the three has not made up yet?" Penny asked, still remembering what she saw time when she was with Ruby and Goku.
"Yeah...I think Yang and Weiss might be better now?" Ruby certainly hoped so, she left the two alone for a good reason after all.
"Then is there no chance of Blake getting better with you three again?"
"I don't really know Penny..."
Deciding to change the topic, Penny asked another question.
"It is strange that we had not found her yet," Penny concluded.
"Yeah, I mean we've been walking around for like forever now..."
"If only we had some sort of vehicle that allows us to traverse through the skies, a bird's eyes point of view would certainly be much easier."
Ruby had a face full of realization after hearing what Penny just said, she hit her head repeatedly, feeling stupid for forgetting again.
"Why did I forget Nimbus again! Arrgghhh!" Ruby yelled, ruffling her hair, surprising the passerby around them and Penny herself.
"Nimbus?" Penny was curious, she had never heard of that name before.
"Nimbus!" She yelled as she held out both her hands.
The two waited, Penny still curious and Ruby still beating herself for not remembering. A few seconds, they saw something shined in the night sky, Nimbus was coming down from the clouds. The people nearby were understandably a bit unnerved by it, considering it was a first they were seeing it.
Once Nimbus descended, Penny immediately inspected the golden cloud, trying to see what it was made of.
"Hmmm...Perhaps it is made from the latest Atlesian technology that I am not aware of, but that is impossible considering..."
Penny felt a tap on her left shoulder, she turned around, seeing Ruby was making a complicated face.
"Um Penny, I kinda don't want to waste time so...," With that, Ruby jumped on the small cloud, surprising everyone in the vicinity by the sheer fact that a small girl was doing the impossible.
"Come on Penny, wanna ride?" Ruby believed Penny could be considered as pure of heart, hopefully she was right.
Following her instruction, Penny hopped on, succeeding on riding it, which made Ruby smile happily.
"Alright, let's go Nimbus!"
After that, the two left to the skies, leaving the bystanders around stunned, trying to process what just happened.
Goku was resting on one of the rooftops in Beacon. He had a pretty normal day, a bit of training with Velvet and some farming that he had to do. Even so, he was still worried about the cat faunus. He also noticed that he met none of the members of team RWBY today, he even asked Jaune and the others if they had seen them. Sadly, even team JNPR didn't see them, which worried the martial artist more on what they were doing. He could only let it go because he guessed they didn't want to involve him but he still felt unsatisfied and hoped nothing bad happened to them.
Suddenly, he heard a sound. It was faint, but he was able to sense it. Getting up, he immediately searched around the area, trying to locate the source of the noise. After looking around for a bit, he saw it, a silhouette. He instantly knew that person wasn't supposed to be here.
"I know you're there, come out! I don't wanna hurt you," Not responding to his warning, Goku took out his power pole.
"Power pole EXTEND!" Once it got longer, Goku swung it in an arc. The unidentified person dodged, jumping the instant Goku's power pole got close.
Once the unknown infiltrator was in mid-air, Goku took this as an opening as he jumped towards the trespasser, returning the power pole to its normal state in his ascent.
As Goku got closer, he noticed that one of his opponent's eyes was glowing bright orange, alerting him that his opponent was about to initiate an attack.
Multiple fireballs came of his hands, all of them coming towards the martial artist. Instinctively, he twirled his power pole around, deflecting them towards random direction, the deflected blasts damaging some parts of the campus as shards started forming the instant it hit the ground.
The infiltrator, didn't relent however as he continued raining Goku with fireballs. Thinking this would be a stalemate if this continued on, he stopped spinning his power pole and instead, started spinning his tail, allowing him to hover and lengthen his time of descent.
This course of action by Goku threw the unknown person off, causing him to miss some of his shots. Taking this as his chance, Goku turned around and quickly cupped both his hands, firing a small kamehameha wave, rocketing straight toward trespasser.
Once he got closer, Goku let out a strong left swift kick, his opponent blocking it with his arm. As the two continue descending in midair, they quickly got into close combat with each other.
Punching, kicking, dodging, ducking…. That's all Goku did repeatedly as he traded blows with his opponent in midair. The same could also be said for the unknown trespasser. They were both giving the same amounts of blows but they had not hit each other, not even once. None of the two had any advantages over the other when it came down to it.
The instant the two touched the ground, they both simultaneously jumped away from each other, both hoping to get some distance.
"You're pretty strong huh?"
Upon notice, Goku saw a person that was slightly taller than, he had a slim built. He was also wrapped completely in black clothing, everything covered except his eyes.
His opponent simply stayed silent as dust started to float from the ground, alerting Goku of the immediate threat that was around him.
Goku was glaring at his opponent, keeping his guard up so that he could counter what the mysterious person was trying to do. With one swoop of the trespasser's hand, the dust floating turned into spears. With another swipe, the spears started to fly towards the martial artist from different angles.
Reacting accordingly, Goku grabbed his power pole and gave a clean sweep, splitting one of them in half as the dust shards went pass beside him.
Not wasting any time, Goku started running around as he formed multiple after-images, causing the spears missed their moving target, hitting the ground instead. Even so, the spears reformed as the dust shards started hovering again, tracking for the real one again as the after-images faded.
Having enough of it, Goku quickly dashed towards him while the spears were still following like a magnet. Noticing that the martial artist was charging towards him, the infiltrator instantly knew what the monkey faunus trying to do, the martial artist was trying to bait him into using his own attack against him. Not falling for it, the black-clothed person was about to dodge the incoming shards once he thought the martial artist would jump away the instant the monkey faunus was in front of him. Surprising the man, Goku hooked both his wrists and jumped to his right and gave a hard hook kick towards his opponent's back as Goku released his tail the instant the man was sent flying. Thrown forward, the infiltrator could do nothing but withstand the shards that were flying right at him, forming a giant dustcloud as the shards collided with the person's body.
Goku waited for the dustcloud to disperse as he was sure his opponent was not down just yet.
Without warning, orange and black circles started forming under his feet. Not wanting to know what would happen, Goku rolled off the ground where the circles won't be. The instant he was out of their range, the circles disappeared, forming huge explosions around the area.
Goku thought he was lucky to have escaped, he didn't want to imagine what would have happened to him if he was caught in the middle of that. However, he did not notice a certain someone's movement from behind, causing the young martial artist to slip up as he got cut, forming a gash. Fortunately, Goku was able to dodge a fatal blow, having only his left arm cut, his sleeves ripped as a result.
Staring at his opponent again, he noticed that 'he' was a 'she' all along as he saw her mask was torn off, revealing her long hair. Unfortunately, he could not see any more due to his opponent having another set of mask under the robes. She was also now holding a pair of dual black swords. Goku could see it was formed from those dust shards.
The woman rushed towards him as she swung her right sword downward. Goku responded by moving to his right but the instant he moved, another sword was coming from below. Luckily, the martial artist was able to dodge the incoming attack, spreading both his legs as he jumped.
Once Goku got back down to the ground, the woman swung both her swords in a downward vertical, clearly having the intent of trying to kill the young martial artist. In response, Goku pulled out his power pole yet again, blocking her slash.
The two were now in a standstill as one was trying to overpower the other, their bodies shaking as a result.
Knowing this was not going anywhere, the woman extended her left leg, tripping the martial artist, making him lose his balance as he fell down. This also resulted in both her swords falling down on Goku as he was not defending himself with his power pole anymore.
Thinking quick on his feet, Goku grabbed his power pole with his right hand as he put his left hand on the ground and acting as an anchor, swinging his body away from the slash.
As soon as Goku got his footing back, he held his power pole tightly as he rushed in to attacks, swinging it from his left, his opponent responded in kind as she blocked it with both her swords. The two then started to exchange blows using only their weapons, sparks flying as their weapons collided with each other.
The woman, clothed in black swung a horizontal slash towards the monkey faunus. Goku bended his upper body downwards, dodging by the breath of a hair as some pieces of it fell off.
Not wasting any time, Goku pushed his power pole upwards, striking both her wrists, causing her to drop both her swords to the ground as martial artist got back up standing.
Recovering quickly, the woman jabbed Goku in the gut, causing him to flinch from the pain. Following the previous attack, the woman thrust an open palm on the faunus's chin from below, throwing him upward into the air, then falling back down to the ground.
As Goku was recovering from the attack just now, he immediately noticed his opponent was now holding a bow, readying to fire an arrow at him. As his power pole was a fair bit of distance away from him, Goku could only dodge the arrow as he moved to the left.
While the arrow did not hit him at all, it did however managed to hit the string that was attached to his pouch with it, causing it to drop to the ground, the one-star ball rolling out of the pouch.
The woman suddenly stopped attacking him the moment the shiny orb was out in the open, as if knowing what it was.
Goku, deciding to not take any chances, quickly grabbed his pouch and tried to take the one-star ball back but quickly withdrew his hand as an arrow suddenly stuck itself on the ground in front of him. It was clear to the monkey faunus that his opponent didn't want him to get the dragon ball back.
"Power pole EXTEND!" Goku yelled at the top of his lungs, thrusting his power pole towards his opponent.
She was wary, why did her opponent who managed to fight her at the same level would possibly use such a predictable move? She was cautious as she simply moved her body to the right, the power pole moving passed right beside her.
Goku grinned, he anticipated that. Goku swung his power pole with everything he had to the left, slamming her to the wall of a building nearby, creating smoke and falling debris upon contact.
Goku slowly walked to pick up his dragon ball, still cautious as he prepared himself just in case she was still conscious.
Tying his pouch to his belt, Goku prepared himself as he still wasn't sure if the woman was down yet. She was an opponent he couldn't possibly hope to underestimate.
As the dust settle, the woman was gone, evident by the fact that there was nothing but a giant crater on the building.
Goku immediately looked around, hoping that she hadn't disappeared yet. She wasn't. He saw the woman standing on a building, staring at him, then running off.
Goku immediately gave chase as he started running. He had a hunch that something will come out of this if he followed her. He was confident that he could keep up, even with the wound on his arm.
Yep, stick to the plan. Problem was…Blake was currently trying to threaten a hindsight, they really should have thought of a plan if the White Fang ever came, too bad they didn't.
Sun was currently on top of one of the crates, observing the situation below. What was happening right now was Blake trying to convince the members of the White Fang. He couldn't tell if it was working but regardless, he was more wary of the tall man wearing the bowler hat who was currently being held by Blake, a blade pointed at his throat.
Sun jumped down to get a closer look at the situation.
"Oh you delusional kid..." The nefarious criminal, Roman Torchwick said sarcastically. He wasn't even nervous at the fact he was currently being held hostage.
"What do you mean?" Blake snapped at the criminal, not understanding.
"Do you actually think they're here by mistake, or even one of their usual outings. Hahahaha...No. You see kitty cat, the White Fang and I, we had an agreements of sorts to work together so your little preaching won't work here."
"Tell me what it is or I'll end your little operation."
"Little? You don't even want to know..."
Bullheads suddenly appeared, hovering above them. Blake watched in horror as Roman simply smile, firing a blast from his cane, creating a large explosion.
Seeing this, Sun immediately jumped in. He hoped that the cat faunus would be alright.
"Ruby, there is apparently smoke coming from that area," Penny pointed as the two were still riding on Nimbus.
"Oh, no...Come on Nimbus, we gotta hurry!" Ruby had a bad feeling in her stomach as Nimbus sped up, flying towards the area where the explosion just occurred.
Blake, for a lack of a better word, was dazed as she was lying on the ground. Fortunately, she was unhurt but she guessed it won't stay that way for long if she didn't move away right now.
She quickly rolled and started running as Roman Torchwick fired blasts at her from his cane, the blasts missing as they hit the containers that were above her instead.
"Stop trying to run, kitty...I'm not going to hurt you..." He was lying of course, he was just trying to have some fun right now. He was having fun, hat was before a banana peel was thrown off his face. Taking it off, he saw a very angry monkey charging at him.
"Leave her alone!" Sun yelled as he rushed, taking out his bo staff as he swung it at Roman.
Blocking it with his cane, he was a bit surprised that there another faunus but nonetheless, it was all too easy for the thief, "You're not brightest banana out of the bunch, are you kid?" Roman quipped as he nodded his head toward the White Fang members.
The members of the White Fang slowly started to encircle the blond faunus. Sun gulped, he was seriously in hot water now, wasn't he?
Fortunately for the faunus, Blake came to his aid as she quickly took out her katana, slashing through them as she ran in a straight line, causing the men to collapse.
Roman could only roll his eyes at what happened. He supposed even if worthless grunts were to change to filthy animals, the results would still be the same.
He immediately pushed Sun away, kicking him in the stomach.
"Now then, let's see how well you two work together, shall we?" Roman smiled condescendingly, not having a hint of worry.
The two looked at each other, understanding what the other were thinking. They nodded in agreement as they rushed the thief together.
"Penny, you stay back," Ruby warned as she didn't want the orange-haired girl to get hurt.
The two were currently above where Blake and Sun was fighting Roman. The instant Ruby observe the situation, she immediately took action, wanting to help her friend as quickly as possible.
"But I— "
Ignoring her disagreement, Ruby jumped down from Nimbus as she activate Crescent Rose. Penny, was still unsure on what she should do.
After pushing back the cat faunus and blocking the monkey faunus's attack. Roman was feeling really great about himself. Sure, the heist stumbled upon a little roadblock but he was sure he could quickly get back on track.
"You two done? I have a schedule to keep after all," Roman mocked as he pretended to look at his imaginary watch.
Blake and Sun were currently out of breath. Even after releasing a multitude of barrages of attack, none of them had phase the thief in the least. They were, in fact getting quite worried.
"Well then," Roman simply said as he was preparing to fire another blast at the two.
"Haaaaaaa—!" A voice called out, alerting the three, as Roman looked to see who it was. Blake and Sun looked up, seeing Ruby descending at high speeds, with Crescent Rose at hand.
The thief quickly lifted both his arms to hold his cane up, his body shook from the impact as the scythe collided with his cane. Ruby was hanging on the air as Crescent Rose was hooked on to his cane.
"Hello Red, isn't it past your bedtime?"
Ruby's expression didn't change as she swung her body upward and swung it down again, letting loose a fierce kick to the fierce, forcing the thief to fall down and lose his grip on his cane.
Switching it to rifle form, she aimed Crescent Rose at the fallen thief.
"Don't move!" Ruby warned the thief.
"Geez...fine fine," Roman complied, lifting both his arms.
"You two alright?" Ruby asked Blake and Sun, not turning her focus away from the thief.
"Ruby? Why are you here?" Blake asked, she was however, thankful that her leader came to their rescue.
"Came looking for you. Just glad you're safe," Ruby said sincerely.
"Well isn't that just precious...The little red, looking out for her friends. Too bad though...that I'll have to interrupt this little reunion."
Roman took the bowler hat off his head and threw it at the young huntress-in training in a circular arc. Before Ruby could pull the trigger, the hat hit her wrist, making her miss the shot.
Roman took this opening to take his crane back, immediately firing a blast at the three of them and catching his hat that was spinning itself back to him.
The resulting blast caused a huge explosion. Roman turned away from the explosion as he twirled his cane, confident that his victory was assured.
He was hoping those idiots from the White Fang were at least trying to take the crates...but he was wrong.
He saw a girl with long blonde hair, currently fighting with them with her fists, some of them even unconscious on the floor.
"Hey there! Mr. thief, you wouldn't mind me crashing in? Also, I really want to bash your head, cause you know, you hurt my baby sister and my partner!" Yang said angrily.
"Pardon me, but you're not the only one here," A haughty voice cut in.
Considering the voice was coming from behind him, Roman's eyes widen, he couldn't believe that those kids were still not down yet.
Before Ruby and the others was a huge shield, made entirely out of ice. It had cracks, presumably from the blast earlier.
Blake couldn't believe that Weiss was here...and the fact that she was the one who saved them.
"Weiss, how did you get here so quick?" Ruby asked, she didn't see her sister or Weiss earlier when she was still on Nimbus.
"You can blame your sister," Weiss said as she shook her head a bit from the dizziness, Yang winking at them.
"Weiss, why did you— "
"After all those hours of thinking and …reflecting. I have concluded that it doesn't matter. The matter of fact is, you're a member of team RWBY and nothing else matters. None," Weiss stated simply, not leaving any room for further discussions.
Blake didn't know how to respond to that, she had thoughts that Weiss would still be at odds with her. She was glad, and thankful that she was wrong.
"Touching. Well then, if you don't mind, I'll be on my— "
"Stop there, criminal!" Penny warned, blocking the criminal's way.
"Penny, it's not safe here, get back," The scythe wielder was surprised that Penny was here, she thought she was still on Nimbus, it just didn't make sense to her how she got off the golden cloud. More importantly, the young leader of team RWBY didn't want to see her new friend hurt...or possibly even worse.
"I'm sorry I did not come to your aid sooner but it's fine Ruby, I'm combat ready," Penny stated with a confident smile.
"Really? YOU? Hah, that's a good joke if any. Now then, if you— "
Penny's backpack opened up by itself, revealing a set of multiple of swords, hovering behind her in a circular arc. With a single gesture, she commanded the swords to cut the nearby leftover members of the White Fang that were unfortunate enough to meet the edge of the girl's blades.
Roman jumped back, dodging the girl's swords. He did not want to get his coat dirty, certainly not. Roman decided that it would be best if he escaped while they were still distracted by the spectacle that the orange-haired was doing. Sadly for the thief, he was blocked by a certain blonde brawler once he turned around to another direction.
"Like. I. Told. You, I'm going to bash your head and you're going to like it, whether you want to or not," Yang grinned, cracking her knuckles.
Roman sighed, he certainly hoped nothing could go worse than this. The very instant the thief thought that, he saw the little orange-haired girl firing a laser, destroying several Bullheads in the process.
The others were stunned and amazed at what Penny just did. They had no idea that she could possibly be this strong.
Having enough of tonight, Roman tossed a dust crystal towards the ground, snapping everyone out of their trance. Ruby and the other raised their respective weapons and aimed it at Roman, using it as a warning towards the thief.
Roman, however, didn't care in the least as he aimed his cane at the red dust crystal, firing it, causing yet another explosion, the smoke obscuring everyone's view.
While Ruby and the others couldn't see in the smoke, they still kept their guard up as they couldn't predict what Roman would do next.
Several moments later, a loud hovering sound was heard as the smoke vanished due to the Bullhead that was hovering above them.
"Toot-a-loo, kids," Roman said, closing the door as the Bullhead lifted off into the sky.
Ruby, not wanting to make the same mistake as last time, started chasing after the Bullhead.
"Wait! Ruby, where are you going?" Yang asked her sister, concern in her voice.
"Nimbus!" She yelled, the golden cloud descended as she jumped on.
The others starting chasing after the young Rose, hoping she was not doing what they were doing.
All except for Penny, that was. She was stopped by a man in a formal suit, pulling her on her shoulder with his outstretched hand as he shook his head, Penny staying quiet as she could only hope Ruby nothing bad happened to her new friend.
As the golden cloud, took off chasing after the Bullhead. Ruby turned her head towards the other, yelling at the top of her long.
"Don't worry guys, I have a plan!"
They couldn't be seen anymore as Nimbus got so close it was nearly a few feet away from the door that was on the Bullhead.
Suddenly, the door opened itself. Ruby prepared herself as she lifted up Crescent Rose in sniper form. Before she could react, a cane came out of the door, hooking her in. Roman revealing himself as she disarmed her weapon, putting the young girl in a hold as Ruby tried to get out of his grasp.
"Well now, Red. This is why you shouldn't have stayed past your bed time."
Yang and the others were worried, especially Yang as she was very anxious and wanted to keep her sister safe as soon as possible.
"That's it! I can't stand it anymore! I'm chasing after Ruby and if anyone of you are going to stop— "
"Don't be ridiculous. Of course we are going to find that partner of mine. We're a team after all," Weiss argued.
"We won't just stand by here and do nothing, and you're not doing it alone," Blake reassured the brawler.
"Yeah, I'll even help out," Sun proclaimed as he gave a thumbs up.
"Thanks guys...Who are you again? Doesn't matter, come one, let's go!" Yang declared as all of them started to move out.
Yang hoped from the bottom of her heart that her baby sister was safe. If she couldn't make it in time, she didn't know what she would do.
Goku was currently still chasing after the mysterious woman. They had been jumping on various rooftops for a while now. Weirdly enough, Goku couldn't actually close the distance between the two despite his best efforts.
As he continued running, he heard a loud whirling sound above. He lifted his face upward, seeing a Bullhead above him, flying at high speeds. The weird thing was, he noticed there was also a golden shine that was present behind the airship. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Nimbus. However, he couldn't see a single sign of Ruby being there, which worried him.
Immediately stopping, the martial artist decided that Ruby's safety was much more important right now. He had a strong hunch that Ruby was in trouble at the moment, he then changed direction as he started following the Bullhead, hoping that would take him to Ruby.
"Welcome Red, to my little hideout. Flash photography is strongly not recommended," the thief joked as he sat on one of the crates.
At the moment, both of Ruby's hands and legs were bounded by a tight rope. She was however, allowed to speak, she guessed it was probably the thief had some other plans with her. Crescent Rose was also a fair bit of distance away from her, she was trying to think of a way to escape. Looking at all the men who were also in the hideout, she realized that there weren't many options of escape.
"What do you want with me?" Ruby asked the criminal.
"What do I want with you? Oh, you have no idea Red," Roman threatened as he got closer to Ruby.
Ruby gulped, she hoped she would get out of this somehow. She really should have listened to her sister's advice.
Standing in front of him was a building that looked like any other. Goku was sure he didn't mistook the place as he saw the transport landed somewhere near here. With a heavy breath, he took out his power pole, charging towards the warehouse in front of him.
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Next chapter preview by Goku in Japanese and Yang in Chinese.
孙悟空：おら孙悟空。
阳小龙：我就是阳小龙。悟空，我妹妹被绑架了！我跟其他人都还有很远才到，我只能 靠你罢了，你最好替我救她和打他们到半死， 你听到吗？
孙悟空: よし、 俺に任せとけ!
阳小龙：希望你们读者能看待下章节！
….on second thought, I'm never doing that again. Disregard what I typed in just now, got it? It wasn't anything important anyway. I was just being dumb, and also bored. If anyone can understand what was written above at a glance despite my cruddy writing, that is even worse than my understanding of English, I applaud you because you are freaking amazing stranger on the internet.
Woohoo! One more chapter to go until the end of this volume. Now I can kick back, relax and procrastinate until next week…Alright, maybe not but still, the next chapter will be done when it's done.
A little reminder the poll will end by the time the next chapter comes so I hope you all will vote on that…
On another note, I like to imagine this RWBY universe is actually universe 6 despite me knowing that can and will never happen. I don't know, the moment I remembered humanity was wiped out in universe 6, I just thought it like that. I know, I'm weird.